Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] A bit Offtopic: Ether Type 0x886d??

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 17:11:33 -0800 (PST)
> A bit offtopic, but ... I can't figure out what these ethernet packets 
> are with ether type 0x886d,

The page at

	http://standards.ieee.org/regauth/ethertype/type-pub.html

says it's assigned to "Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR" (I'm not sure
what group that is at Intel; I think they're still headquartered in
Santa Clara, CA, so I presume that means that a group in Hillsboro
were the ones who registered it).

I don't know if this is some old thing dating back to the days when
they, IBM, and Microsoft developed SMB (I think Intel had a product
using SMB as a networked file system for UNIX, OpenNET or something such
as that, ages ago), or something Shiny And New from the Intel
Architecture Labs or from the guys doing networking cards at Intel.

It doesn't seem to match the description of a "Magic Packet" in the
Intel 82558 manual (and it'd be kind of silly for some machine to be
broadcasting "power yourself up" packets madly anyway).